Improvement in stove-lid lifters



G. SPRGUE.

Stove-Lid Lifter.

NO. 159;228, Patented Jan. 26.1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE SPRAGUE, OF LOKPORI, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-LID LIFTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,228, dated January 26, 1875; application fi1ed November 21, 1874.

.lowing is a specification:

This invention relates to certain improvements in stove-cover lifters in which the metal handle is hollow and filled With a plastic nonconducting material, and the tang of the liftcr set in said plastic material, whereby it is held in place, and to a certain extent the heat is prevented from being transmitted to the metal handle.

The object of my invention is to improve such construction of stove-cover lifters, whereby they are rendered more perfect and the heat efiectually prevented from being transmitted to the head of the handle, and the only part of said' handle whieh is fiable to become heated being that portion at the end in which the tan g of the lifter is inserted.

To this particular end-Via, preventing the transmission of the heat to the end of the handle which is grasped in the handmy invention consists in arranging between the redueed end of the tang of the lifter and the end of the handle a stopper or dis]: of cork, as will be more fully described hereinatter in detail.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the lifter With the handle in section, showing the disk of cork immediately at the end of the lifter; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the 1ifter With the handle in section and the cork arranged in the plastic material.

It has been found that in stove-cover lifters constructed with a hollow hand1e filled With a plastic material, in which the tang of the lifter is set, the handle is fiable to beoome heated, notwithstanding the non-conducting material,

as the tang, becoming very bot, soon transmits its heat to the metal handle, thereby rendering it very inconvenient in handling. I have discovered that, by arranging a blook or disk of cork, c, between the end a et the tang ot thelifter and the end of the metal handle which is grasped by the hand, the heat of the sang is obstrncted or interrupted, and is eftectually prevented from being transmitted to any portion of the handle beyond said cork disk. The handle B of the lifterA is filled with a plastic non-condncting material, 0, which, to a certain extent, tends to keep the handle cool. The shank or tang A of the lifter is fiattened, as shown at 11 I), and it is set in theplastic matetial, which, becoming cool, effectually holds the lifter in place.

Tire blook or disk of cork may be arranged directly at the end of the tang of the lifter, as in Fig. 1, or it may be arranged at a short distance from the same, as shown in Fig. 2.

I do not Wish to be understood as claiming a hollow handle having a plastic non-conducting filling; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, With a stove cover lifter having a handle filled With a plastic non-conducting material,in which the sang; 01 the lifter is held, of the b1ock or disk of cork interposed between the end of the lever and the head of the handle, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my marne in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE SPRAGUE.

Witnesses:

J. E. DRAKE, T. H. PARSONS. 

